How do you get to school each day? Is it a well known or marked path? What would happen if they didn't know where they were going? Try to draw a map showing them the information they have just provided.

Dr. Susan Madsen opens the discussion with a presentation, based on her research, about raising girls to become leaders. She will also shares resources that can enrich influencers’ efforts. Dr. Madsen then moderates a panel of women leaders including Rebecca Chavez-Houck, Abby Cox, Jeanette Bennett and Michelle Kaufusi who have raised daughters and worked with young women in various ways through the years on finding their voices and becoming more influential.

This youtube video explains what life was like in Salt Lake City during the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic.

Jane Clayson Johnson is a national broadcast journalist, widely known for her work at CBS News, ABC News, and NPR. Over more than two decades, she traveled the world covering international stories, presidential campaigns, and interviewing the biggest newsmakers of the day. A best-selling author, Jane’s book, Silent Souls Weeping, is a candid look inside the core-shaking world of depression. Jane shines a light on the desperate, dark, and lonely reality faced by those who struggle with clinical depression. She has drawn upon scores of real-life experiences in an effort to open a dialogue—a new level of honesty, authenticity, and hope for those who suffer.

In our second SGEN episode, Dani Sloan takes the host's seat and shares some more good education news! She highlights an array of unique graduation stories and goes in-depth with Bridgette Barrowes about the necessity to have a dialogue about race with other teachers and students to overcome uncertainties. Share your good education news with us with #uengoodnews. Stay safe, be kind and keep learning!

The video tutorial introduces students to the Soundzabound music library from Utah's Online Library.

This article goes over the drought of 1934 and it's impact it had on Utah, the farmers, and the communities.

The student will be able to identify the subsistence practices of the Southern Paiutes and analyze the economic and social connections between the different bands of Southern Paiutes in Utah.

This is a single day lesson on the Transcontinental Railroad and the effects it had on Utah. This lesson is a hyperdoc and can be done in person or online. Cover image is publically licensed, credit to unsplash.com, by Oxana Melis. 

Lieutenant Governor's website covering election information for the State of Utah including voter registration

The history of -- Knight, Jesse -- is examined in an article provided as a PDF document. This article is extracted from the book UTAH HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA, published in celebration of Utah's Centennial (1996) and edited by Allan Kent Powell. Over two hundred contributors wrote about the individuals, organizations, locations, institutions, and topics important to Utah history.

A resource developed and maintained by the Utah Historical Society aligned to Utah grade level core standards

This lesson provides students with information about the main events and key players involved in Utah women’s suffrage over the course of several key periods: 1) enfranchisement (1860s-1870), 2) disfranchisement (1871-1887), 3) re-enfranchisement with statehood (1888-1896), and 4) the ratification of the 19th Amendment (1920). Students will participate in a reader’s theater and a voting simulation requiring them to view and write about these historical events through various perspectives.

This article is a short overview of the Vietnam conflict and Utah's contributions to the effort.

This article is a short overview of the Cold War and Utah's contributions and efforts during it.

Last week's blog post introduced Chronicling America, a deep repository of historic American newspapers covering the years 1836"“1922. Students can use newspapers available through Chronicling America to expose the rich texture of the women's rights movement and its many milestones, meetings, and debates right from the beginning and in a way that few other resources can. As an added bonus, they will be working with the kind of complex informational texts that the Common Core English Language Standards recommends. In what follows, we'll be suggesting articles written from a variety of points of view that make arguments based on appeals to evidence.

This article goes over some of Utah's contributions to WWI on the homefront with military installations and how it impacted communities and its economy.

This video tutorial gives an introduction to using Worldbook from Utah's Online Library.